How to Connect the Words in Early First Grade

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In the late 90s there was a report commissioned by Congress called the National Reading Panel. People who want to become teachers go to teacher preparation programs and they are not taught very much about how to teach reading, she says. What has happened is some very influential people have taken these ideas and made them very popular in schools,. She argues that this de-emphasizes phonics without recognizing it.

For decades, American schools have taught reading with an approach that doesn’t work very well. Emily Hanford of the podcast “Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong” explains how things are starting to change.

This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Victoria Chamberlin, engineered by Michael Raphael, and hosted by Noel King.

We're taking Monday off for Juneteenth and will be back with a new episode on Tuesday, June 20.

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